A Follow-Up of Adolescents with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
- 1 June 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 154 (6) , 829-834
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.154.6.829
Abstract
Twenty-six patients seen at a regional adolescent psychiatry unit between 1974 and 1979 with a discharge diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive disorder were followed up after an average of ten years. Of 24 subjects traced, outcome information was obtained from 20. At the point of follow-up, ten patients remained psychiatrically ill, six having persisting obsessive–compulsive symptoms. Poor outcome was associated with a family history of psychiatric illness and lack of response to therapy at initial contact. All patients who were asymptomatic at discharge had remained well.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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